Iran's Intelligence Ministry announces the arrest of two Europeans
Two Europeans were arrested in Iran on charges of “organizing chaos and distorting the people’s demands.” The Ministry of Intelligence announced the news, calling them “experienced agents.” The nationalities of those arrested are unknown. A noteworthy coincidence with the Nouri trial.
On Wednesday, May 11, the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a statement regarding the identification and arrest of two European individuals. The statement stated that the arrested individuals had entered Iran “with the aim of abusing the legitimate demands of some classes and strata of the country and changing the direction of normal demands into chaos, social disorder, and destabilization of society.”
It has also been claimed that these two "had the mission to gain insight into the problems and demands of the noble and hardworking segments of society by justifying, guiding, networking, and connecting corrupt individuals and networks within the country."
Pushing society into a “terrible wave of destruction, evil, and insecurity” are among the alleged accusations in the announcement.
The identities and nationalities of the detainees were not specified, but the statement said: "The two main elements, nationals of a European country and organized by intelligence services, are professional specialists in the field of creating insurgency and instability who had spent years in several target countries, training their local agents in the experience of implementing such scenarios."
The Ministry of Intelligence, on the one hand, attributed the arrest of these individuals to the “unknown soldiers of the Imam of the Age,” and on the other hand, stated that they had fallen into its “intelligent intelligence net” based on the ministry’s cross-border interceptions. The announcement, calling the Coordination Council of Teachers’ Unions illegal, stated that all plans and meetings of the two European individuals “from the moment they entered Iran until their arrest were under full security control and documented.”
The Ministry of Intelligence has added that some of the relevant audio and video documentation will be made public at the earliest possible time.
This news comes shortly after the conclusion of the trial of Hamid Nouri, one of the perpetrators of the massacre of political prisoners in the 1960s, in Sweden, and the issuance of a court verdict in Belgium for three accomplices of Asadollah Asadi, the diplomat responsible for the bombing plot at the MEK meeting.
Hamid Nouri is facing a life sentence after 88 court sessions and is scheduled to be sentenced in July. Asadollah Asadi has also been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
A few days ago, the newspaper Aftonbladet, relying on information it had received, reported the arrest of a Swedish tourist in Iran and linked this to the trial of Hamid Nouri.
The fate of Ahmad Reza Jalali, an Iranian-Swedish physician and researcher imprisoned in Iran, is said to be tied to the situation of the aforementioned individuals. Jalali has been sentenced to death on charges of espionage. Tehran has reportedly previously offered to exchange Assadollah Asadi for Ahmad Reza Jalali.
After the conclusion of Hamid Nouri's trial, the Islamic Republic's judiciary announced that Ahmad Reza Jalali would be executed by the end of May. Iranian judicial officials have claimed that the execution of Jalali's sentence has nothing to do with Nouri's trial or the exchange with him.
Source: DW
